Kyle Howell
Software Engineer at Trimble
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Howell is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing tools, currently contributing to Trimble’s Warehouse Platform that powers several large content warehouses. He brings strong skills in Java 11, SQL, Python, and C/C++, with a history of embedded and systems work from internships and academic research in programming languages. An active open-source contributor, Kyle improved TAStudio within the well-known BizHawk emulator—adding UI features, fixing crashes, and optimizing performance—demonstrating attention to both user experience and robustness. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he combines production-grade server development with a deep interest in language tooling and low-level code, reflecting a pragmatic balance of correctness and usability.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
English
Github Skills (9)
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
winforms10
csharp10
emulation10
dotnet-core10
ui-design9
cpp8
cplus8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TASEmulators/BizHawk
Aug 2014 - Sep 2016
BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on enhancing the TAStudio tool within the BizHawk emulator project. Their contributions included implementing new features, such as the right-click context menu and auto-pause functionality, along with fixing bugs related to marker management, scrolling, and subtitle editing. Additionally, they improved the user interface and experience by adding horizontal orientation and fixing selection drawing. The user also addressed crashes and made performance improvements within TAStudio.
saturnemulatorc-plus-plusc-sharplibretro
kylelyk/ruffle
May 2023 - May 2023
A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
Contributions:2 pushes in 22 days
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